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Specificaties
- Objectstaat
- Type
- Paperback
- ISBN
- 9780803230101
- Book Title
- My Ruby Slippers : the Road Back to Kansas
- Book Series
- American Lives Ser.
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press
- Item Length
- 8.5 in
- Publication Year
- 2011
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.6 in
- Genre
- Travel, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography
- Topic
- Personal Memoirs, General, United States / MidWest / West North Central (IA, Ks, MN, Mo, Nd, Ne, Sd), Customs & Traditions
- Item Weight
- 23.5 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.5 in
- Number of Pages
- 208 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
ISBN-10
0803230109
ISBN-13
9780803230101
eBay Product ID (ePID)
99582359
Product Key Features
Book Title
My Ruby Slippers : the Road Back to Kansas
Number of Pages
208 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2011
Topic
Personal Memoirs, General, United States / MidWest / West North Central (IA, Ks, MN, Mo, Nd, Ne, Sd), Customs & Traditions
Genre
Travel, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography
Book Series
American Lives Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
23.5 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2010-025586
Reviews
"There is a sensitivity and patience and persistent thoughtfulness in Tracy Seeley's prose that makes her memoir unique to this cultural moment. In her capable hands we are in no hurry to get anywhere, but happy to follow her lead down every digressive and revelatory path."Phillip Lopate, author ofGetting Personal: Selected Essays, "Under Tracy Seeley's cool, clear gaze, the fractured landscape of America's rootlessness is seen whole again. She reminds us that place is both on the horizon and within our memories. . . .My Ruby Slippersis a complete pleasure to read."Lewis Buzbee, author ofThe Yellow-Lighted Bookshop, "There is a sensitivity and patience and persistent thoughtfulness in Tracy Seeley's prose that makes her memoir unique to this cultural moment. In her capable hands we are in no hurry to get anywhere, but happy to follow her lead down every digressive and revelatory path."Phillip Lopate, author of Getting Personal: Selected Essays, "Under Tracy Seeley's cool, clear gaze, The fractured landscape of America's rootlessness is seen whole again. She reminds us that place is both on the horizon and within our memories. . . . My Ruby Slippers is a complete pleasure to read." - Lewis Buzbee, author of The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop "Ad astra per aspera. To the stars through difficulty is the Kansas state motto. Tracy Seeley's My Ruby Slippers takes us on a knockabout journey to Dorothy territory, but when she awakens in sunflowers, she's not home. An honest inquiry into who we are wherever we are, and a brave meditation on mortality. A wonderful book." - Terese Svoboda, author of Black Glasses Like Clark Kent "Tracy Seeley's My Ruby Slippers offers a graceful journey into the secret worlds of grief, illness, and, ultimately, recovery. This is a wonderfully vivid and compassionate book, reminding us of how place can shape us and make us whole again." - Dinty W. Moore, author of Between Panic and Desire "There is a sensitivity and patience and persistent thoughtfulness in Tracy Seeley's prose that makes her memoir unique to this cultural moment. In her capable hands we are in no hurry to get anywhere, but happy to follow her lead down every digressive and revelatory path." Phillip Lopate, author of Getting Personal: Selected Essays, "Under Tracy Seeley's cool, clear gaze, the fractured landscape of America's rootlessness is seen whole again. She reminds us that place is both on the horizon and within our memories. . . . My Ruby Slippers is a complete pleasure to read."Lewis Buzbee, author of The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop, "In this smart meditation on place, Seeley gives to Kansas the time she never afforded it in her youth."- Kirkus, ""In this smart meditation on place, Seeley gives to Kansas the time she never afforded it in her youth.""-- Kirkus ""Engrossing and hard to put down, this autobiographical account of an odyssey will resonate with many who face their own muddied waters in returning to a home that is only vaguely defined, making this a pick for any general-interest lending library."" --Midwest Book Review ""Seeley . . . writes evocatively of Kansas, from the ""long horizons"" of the prairies to the ""white billows swelling"" in its western sky.""""--Georgia Rowe, San Jose Mercury News ""There is always the threat of a returning tornado, the specter of cancer, which may not carry Dorothy off to Oz this time. In Seeley's case, her ruby slippers take her home and teach her to cherish life there, to be open emotionally and spiritually, and how to belong.""--Katelyn Hansell, Bid Muddy "Under Tracy Seeley's cool, clear gaze, the fractured landscape of America's rootlessness is seen whole again. She reminds us that place is both on the horizon and within our memories. . . . My Ruby Slippers is a complete pleasure to read."--Lewis Buzbee, author of The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop " Ad astra per aspera . 'To the stars through difficulty' is the Kansas state motto. Tracy Seeley's My Ruby Slippers takes us on a knockabout journey to Dorothy territory, but when she awakens in sunflowers, she's not home. An honest inquiry into who we are wherever we are, and a brave meditation on mortality. A wonderful book."--Terese Svoboda, author of Black Glasses Like Clark Kent, "Seeley . . . writes evocatively of Kansas, from the "long horizons" of the prairies to the "white billows swelling" in its western sky.""-Georgia Rowe, San Jose Mercury News, "Ad astra per aspera. 'To the stars through difficulty' is the Kansas state motto. Tracy Seeley'sMy Ruby Slipperstakes us on a knockabout journey to Dorothy territory, but when she awakens in sunflowers, she's not home. An honest inquiry into who we are wherever we are, and a brave meditation on mortality. A wonderful book."Terese Svoboda, author ofBlack Glasses Like Clark Kent, "There is always the threat of a returning tornado, the specter of cancer, which may not carry Dorothy off to Oz this time. In Seeley's case, her ruby slippers take her home and teach her to cherish life there, to be open emotionally and spiritually, and how to belong."-Katelyn Hansell, Bid Muddy, " Ad astra per aspera . 'To the stars through difficulty' is the Kansas state motto. Tracy Seeley's My Ruby Slippers takes us on a knockabout journey to Dorothy territory, but when she awakens in sunflowers, she's not home. An honest inquiry into who we are wherever we are, and a brave meditation on mortality. A wonderful book."-Terese Svoboda, author of Black Glasses Like Clark Kent, "Tracy Seeley'sMy Ruby Slippersoffers a graceful journey into the secret worlds of grief, illness, and, ultimately, recovery. This is a wonderfully vivid and compassionate book, reminding us of how place can shape us and make us whole again."Dinty W. Moore, author ofBetween Panic and Desire, "Tracy Seeley's My Ruby Slippers offers a graceful journey into the secret worlds of grief, illness, and, ultimately, recovery. This is a wonderfully vivid and compassionate book, reminding us of how place can shape us and make us whole again."Dinty W. Moore, author of Between Panic and Desire, " Ad astra per aspera . 'To the stars through difficulty' is the Kansas state motto. Tracy Seeley's My Ruby Slippers takes us on a knockabout journey to Dorothy territory, but when she awakens in sunflowers, she's not home. An honest inquiry into who we are wherever we are, and a brave meditation on mortality. A wonderful book."Terese Svoboda, author of Black Glasses Like Clark Kent, "Engrossing and hard to put down, this autobiographical account of an odyssey will resonate with many who face their own muddied waters in returning to a home that is only vaguely defined, making this a pick for any general-interest lending library." -Midwest Book Review, "Under Tracy Seeley's cool, clear gaze, the fractured landscape of America's rootlessness is seen whole again. She reminds us that place is both on the horizon and within our memories. . . . My Ruby Slippers is a complete pleasure to read."-Lewis Buzbee, author of The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
978.1092 B
Table Of Content
Prelude Chapter One: Thresholds Part One: Going Back Chapter Two: The Good Land Chapter Three: Amazing Grace Chapter Four: The Known World Chapter Five: Wichita Vortex Redux Part Two: Widening the Circle Chapter Six: Kansas Becomes Me Chapter Seven: Sacred Bundles, Secret Maps Chapter Eight: What the Prairie Teaches Part Three: Coming Home Chapter Nine: Matfield Green Coda, 2008 Acknowledgments Selected Bibliography
Synopsis
Sure, there's no place like home--but what if you can't really pinpoint where home is? By the time she was nine, Tracy Seeley had lived in seven towns and thirteen different houses. Her father's dreams of movie stardom, stoked by a series of affairs, kept the family on edge, and on the move, until he up and left. Thirty years later, settled in what seems like a charmed life in San Francisco, a diagnosis of cancer and the betrayal of a lover shake Seeley to her roots--roots she is suddenly determined to search out. My Ruby Slippers tells the story of that search, the tale of a woman with an impassioned if vague sense of mission: to find the meaning of home. Seeley finds herself in a Kansas that defies memory, a place far more complex and elusive than the sum of its cultural myths. On back roads and in her many back years, Seeley also finds unexpected forgiveness for her errant father, and, in the face of mortality, a sense of what it means to be rooted in place, to dwell deeply in the only life we have., Settled in what seems like a charmed life in San Francisco, a diagnosis of cancer and the betrayal of a lover shake Tracy Seeley to her roots - roots she is suddenly determined to search out. My Ruby Slippers tells the story of that search, the tale of a woman with an impassioned if vague sense of mission: to find the meaning of home., Sure, there's no place like home--but what if you can't really pinpoint where home is? By the time she was nine, Tracy Seeley had lived in seven towns and thirteen different houses. Her father's dreams of movie stardom, stoked by a series of affairs, kept the family on edge, and on the move, until he up and left. Thirty years later, settled in what seems like a charmed life in San Francisco, a diagnosis of cancer and the betrayal of a lover shake Seeley to her roots--roots she is suddenly determined to search out. My Ruby Slippers tells the story of that search, the tale of a woman with an impassioned if vague sense of mission: to find the meaning of home. Seeley finds herself in a Kansas that defies memory, a place far more complex and elusive than the sum of its cultural myths. On back roads and in her many back years, Seeley also finds unexpected forgiveness for her errant father, and, in the face of mortality, a sense of what it means to be rooted in place, to dwell deeply in the only life we have. Tracy Seeley is a professor of English at the University of San Francisco.
LC Classification Number
CT275.S469A3 2011
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